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I'm confused - the article (and what I read of the suit) seems to be using the term "Tracking" for both tracking users across other companies apps and websites (what Apple lets you opt out of) and recording users interaction inside an app.

They are very different - there's over a million websites that use Hotjar alone (which sounds similar to what Apple is recording in App), and every news site will record how many view people read each article if not using some analytics front end JS code to read for how long for. Macrumours.com itself is using Google Analytics, and the suit it links to is using Adobe Analytics which do much the same.

From what the article says I don't see how this breaks any of the Apples "Anti Tracking" policies - I'm not saying they're not recording too much just that it doesn't break their policies.



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